Dino Esposito authored over 20 books and 1000 articles in a so far 25 years long career. It is commonly
recognized that his books and articles helped the professional growth of thousands of .NET and ASP.NET
developers and software architects worldwide.

Dino started back in 1992 as a C developer and witnessed
the debut of .NET, the rise and fall of Silverlight and the ups and downs of various architectural patterns. He ended up leading the team of five dreamers who actually deployed in 1995 a thing today we would call
Flickr or even Instagram.

He now looks ahead to Artificial Intelligence 2.0 and Blockchain and is the author
of «The Sabbatical Break», a theatrical-style work to travel the uncontaminated spaces of imagination
hyperlinking software, literature, science, sport, technology, art.

Elizaveta Golenok

Senior Developer @Gotech Software

Elizaveta started back in 2012 as a ASP.NET developer. She has got experience in developing of various systems on C/C ++: platformless INS, unmanned underwater vehicles.

Since 2014 - the lead developer on one of .NET projects at Central Research Institute «Kurs».

Since 2016 - a Senior Developer at «Gotech Software» company. She often worked on system optimization issues.

Among her interests there are route planning and multi-agent systems, compilations, LLVM, low-level debugging of applications, P/Invoke and Mono.

Andrei Gordienkov

Senior IT Architect @Volvo

Andrei is an architect that still love coding. Passionated about AOP, infected by TDD and «automate all the things» - possibly because of the great laziness.

He is also IT Trainer at Luxoft PTC with topics about architecture, patterns, refactorings and other dev things. Constantly challenge colleagues against the «Least astonishment principle» for API.

Nikhil Barthwal

Senior Software Engineer

Nikhil Barthwal is a Senior Software Engineer currently working in a Social Media company in California. In past, he has worked in Jet.com (Acquired by Walmart), Oracle and Microsoft. He interests revolve around Microservices design & implementation. He is particularly fond of using Functional programming languages like F# for better productivity.

Outside work, he speaks at local meetups as well as international conferences on several topics related to Distributed systems & Programming Languages. He has a Master’s in Distributed Systems and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering.

Svetlana Bozhko

Founder and Director @HighDimension.io

Over the last 7 years, I've been involved in software development. I was working as a server-side software engineer (primary using JVM languages - Java, Scala) in such areas as banking, gaming, adtech, processing sensor data using AI and food delivery.

Back in 2015, I did my Masters's in stream data processing and big data analysis at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. When I was a student, I won a Grace Hopper scholarship by Google and had a chance to attend the largest conference for women in computing in the US.

Over the last four years, I've been hosting a weekly tech podcast called DevZen.ru. Its audience is more than 4000 listeners per each episode so far. It appeared to become a constantly growing community of engineers worldwide. Recently, we started organizing meetups for our listeners. It's in Russian, so you can definitely have a listen!

In 2016 I've been accepted to the best European tech startup accelerator - Entrepreneur First, where I was validating different deep tech startup ideas - that's how I got into the UK. I was a CTO and co-founder of my own AI-startup. As it happens quite often with many startups, it didn't work out very well, but I've learned a lot - lots of ups and downs!

Based on my tech background, I've got a Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa - 1 out of 200 immigrants to be recognised as an ""Exceptional Talent in Digital Technology"" by the UK Government in 2016-2017.

At this moment, I'm the Founder and Director of HighDimension.io, a machine learning R&D company. Besides running my company in London, I mentor prospective candidates for the above-mentioned visa type as a Tech Nation Visa Ambassador of Tech City UK.

I enjoy sharing my knowledge and experience with communities. For example, last summer I was a mentor at the second summer school on social entrepreneurship for Belarusian teenagers supported by the European Union. I regularly speak at meetups and conferences in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Vilnius, UK. This year, in January I was teaching a course on Machine Learning and Big Data Engineering with Cambridge Spark (in partnership with Cambridge University).

Nikita Tsukanov

Co-founder @MandarinBank

Developer and open-source enthusiast. Core team developer of AvaloniaUI. A member of MskDotNet organizing committee.

Dmitriy Sorkin

Software consultant @CodeValue

Currently working as a software consultant in CodeValue, mainly focusing on designing highly flexible and reliable applications using .Net Core. Previously an independent full stack web developer for ten years focusing on MS backend services.

Ronald Harmsen

CEO @NForza

I've been working in professional software development for almost 20 years.
Roles I had are developer, requirements & design specialist, consultant, team lead, trainer, (team) coach and operational manager.

Currently I'm combining all these roles as entrepreneur and CEO at NForza. A privately owned Dutch company providing consultancy & development services to our customers.

Sergey Babitsky

Solution Architect / Team Lead @ISsoft

Started in 2008 as .NET developer, he has got experience in developing various products from scratch using fullstack of Microsoft .NET technologies. Since 2012 he is working in a field of payment solutions for healthcare and financial services (SaaS).

Gunnar Peipman is experienced software developer and active .NET community member from Tallinn, Estonia. Gunnar has grown up with coding and has worked on different Microsoft platforms and technologies right from primary school. Having seen technologies coming, going and evolving Gunnar has deep understanding of Microsoft technologies.

Elias Fofanov

CEO @EngineerSpock

I'm thankful enough for that I love what I do.

I began my career as a postgraduate student participating in Microsoft ImagineCup contest.

I've been working with .NET platform since 2003. I've been professionally architecting and implementing software for nearly 10 years, primarily based on the .NET platform. I'm passionate about building rich and powerful applications using modern technologies. I'm a certified specialist in Windows Applications and Service Communication Applications by Microsoft. I'm one of the coordinators of the MskDotNet User Group in Moscow.

""If it's work, we try to do less. If it's art, we try to do more."" - Seth Godin.

The era of CRUD and tiers is gone. While still applicable this vision of the software gets more obsolete every day. Software is pervasive and aims at taking 100% of our lives; no way we could afford planning and designing software the way we did it for at least the last two decades. What’s new then? Here’s a list of crucial keywords: events, micro-services, business processes, domain modeling. In this workshop we’ll explore events and the silent revolution events and commands are bringing in software. We’ll talk Event Sourcing, persistence, CQRS and frameworks and we’ll go through an exercise aimed at building a To-do application with a new event-based framework.

The workshop is about software design but targets the .NET stack. Participants, therefore, should be familiar with C# and .NET.